Nos 13, 14, 15 And 16 Including Front Railings

A row of four former estate cottages dating to circa 1877, built for the Honourable Mark George Kerr Rolle. The cottages are constructed of snecked local stone with alternate blocks of grey and cream-coloured ashlar used for the arches. They have stone stacks with 19th-century brick chimneyshafts and scallop-shaped slate roofs. The plan is of four contemporary cottages facing east, numbered 13 to 16 from left to right, with the end pairs mirroring each other. Each cottage is one room wide and two rooms deep. Cottages 14 and 15, the central pair, have axial stacks backing onto the end cottages, which have projecting end stacks. The end cottages are articulated like small wings and project slightly forward. The cottages are two storeys high with single-storey service outshots to the rear.

The symmetrical exterior features large flat-headed windows on the ground floor and pairs of pointed arch-head lancet windows on the first floor, all containing original or replacement casement windows. Plain plank doors, some with original ironwork (ferremail), are set behind gabled porches with two-centred outer arches. Porches are located centrally and alongside the slightly projecting outer bays. The outer bay gables, the M-shaped gables over the first-floor windows of cottages 14 and 15, and the porches have original wavy bargeboards with pendants. A plaque carved with Rolle arms is high in the wall, the date being now illegible. The main and porch roofs are tall and steeply pitched.

The interiors were not inspected. Original cast iron railings with bulbous standards topped with fleur-de-lys finials enclose a strip of ground along the front, along with original gates in the same style. These cottages are part of a Rolle estate, and were constructed following renovations to Stevenstone Court (now ruined), and the remodelling of the village and Church of St Giles shortly afterwards. This row of four cottages is the finest example of a well-preserved group.